J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Raby Castle: The West Front 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Raby Castle: The West Front’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Recto:
Raby Castle: The West Front 1817
D12292
Turner Bequest CLVI 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 232 x 328 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman | 1816’
Inscribed in pencil ‘19’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLVI 19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is confined to the left-hand side of the page, and show trees in the park south of Raby Castle, viewed from the west. The castellations on the left mark the south-west corner of the retaining wall which encircles the castle, seen in full on folio 30 verso (D12290; CLVI 18), with which the present sketch is continuous.
As now bound and foliated, sketches of the castle and its surroundings fill most of the second half of the sketchbook, from folio 17 recto (D12298; CLVI 22a) to folio 32 recto (D12309; CLVI 28).

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Raby Castle: The West Front 1817 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-raby-castle-the-west-front-r1139510, accessed 19 September 2024.